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RE: Feeding the Masses... For Free!
"Apparently one store had an item or 5 explode in their dairy cooler, and instead of cleaning off the products that got splattered (with what I believe was sour cream), threw it all in the dumpster."
That just blows my mind. It's frightening to think how common these kinds of practices are within the food industry! The U.S. in particular wastes an INSANE amount of food (40% !!!) which is a real tragedy. Anyway, I really admire the work that you're doing and it'd be terrific to see some video footage of it in the future.
Oh, and kudos for being a sensible vegan! As a vegan myself, I agree that it doesn't make much sense to let perfectly good meat go to waste, even if we're not going to consume it ourselves.
It's almost inconceivable that people would ever let that much food go to waste, and it's nice to know that I'm not the only one doing this, there are people all over the world helping to reclaim this abundance :-)
I just got a video camera in the last couple of weeks, and plan on making some footage of runs, along with many other forms of world-changing I take part in. Working on editing up a couple videos I filmed for We Are Change Colorado right now.
Thanks; I don't really consider myself a vegan so much as I practice mindful eating. I am very mindful of the things I put in my body, how they make me feel, what the energy put into them is, etc. My body doesn't like the feeling of meat, milk, or cheese. Not to mention the waste & pollution created through the livestock industry itself, methane from cows will have more of an effect on temperature than CO2. How much GM corn & soy is grown every year, just to feed animals that are later going to be eaten? (animals who would much rather be eating grass by the way).
That's awesome, man! :) Change starts from within and it's always great to see people who are not only talking the talk but walking the walk. I read some articles recently about a restaurant in India that placed a couple of refrigerators outside their establishment and filled them with paper bags of leftover food for the homeless to take. One of my goals is to open a plant-based restaurant in the future with an emphasis on solar cooking, and I'd like to adopt this same sort of practice. Sustainability doesn't end with where our food comes from but where it's going, too.
Yeah, animal agriculture is one of the worst (if not the worst) culprits of environmental degradation and destruction. Cowspiracy is a wonderful documentary film that highlighted this key point. The way I see it, if it weren't for the billions of dollars in government subsidies that are given to the meat, dairy, and egg industries in the U.S. (maybe in the UK and other countries, too, I'm not sure), this wouldn't be as big of a problem as it is today. It'd be great to have those subsidies abolished and watch the rise of entrepreneurial advancements in cultured meat (such as SuperMeat) become widely adopted in the marketplace.
Wonderful! We definitely need more places like that, just like we need more of the pay-what-you-can restaurants, more Food Not Bombs, etc. I feel like the biggest thing is what the intention behind the food is; the more it was created out of love, the better it's going to be.
I'm very much down for people shifting away from supporting those industries. I am, however, very wary of things like lab-grown meat.
Just posted my first video of a mission, thanks for the motivation :-)
Fantastic! I just saw it and upvoted! :)